有感于学校排名

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do you think it is possible for you to travel easily from one city to another to just attend an interview?

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原帖由 golden_alvin 于 2006-7-16 09:01 发表
do you think it is possible for you to travel easily from one city to another to just attend an interview?

If this is a good offer, i don't think this is a problem.
I can image how cheap for traveling in US by air.

golden_alvinUID：180687

it is only your imagination

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我的意见是：

如果你以后不是想从事学术研究的，尽量去学排名较高的学校：譬如在工程方面可能UIUC，Gatech这些在各个领域都很强，但是如果你以后想从事非专业性工作，或者那些需要或可以对你进行重新培训的工作（如banking），还是选择一所比较有名气但你所读专业排名并不一定很高的学校--如Brown，UPenn, Rice。因为这些排名更高的学校在总体上更受社会认同，校友的影响力更大；

如果你以后想从事学术研究，那么我认为，专业排名也不代表什么--一所专业排名高的学校只说明了你遇上牛导师的机会（可能性）比较大，而不是说你一定可以遇上牛导师。一个系的排名是与其规模和方向的齐备性有关的，而这些对于只focus在某一个领域的你意义不大。所以，如果是我，我会只看与我方向相符的导师本身是否牛，如果专业排名不在前50的harvard或是upenn中有个很牛很合适的教授要我（只是如果，我没这么牛），那我会欣然答应而不考虑专业排名前3的（譬如说UIUC或UTAustin）--除非UIUC或UTAustin里面的某个要我的教授比upenn的还强很多--这样就值得再考虑一下了。

从这个分析来看，专业排名似乎是最不“重要的了”--无论我们是否想搞学术。

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原帖由 golden_alvin 于 2006-7-16 09:19 发表
it is only your imagination

Not that much.
Air Canada offers as low as $99 from Edmonton to Vancouver, 1.5 hrs distance
So I don't think how dear it will be in US

golden_alvinUID：180687

The cost of traveling is not the point. Do you think a company on wall street would give an interview oppotunity to a student in Utah?

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原帖由 golden_alvin 于 2006-7-16 09:32 发表
The cost of traveling is not the point. Do you think a company on wall street would give an interview oppotunity to a student in Utah?

As far as the experience of myself, I've got several interviews in Shanghai, when I studied in Beijing, and the company paid the airfare.
But I have no idea about the distance between NY and Utah as you supposed.
My POINT is: if you are competitive, the company won't care about the distance between you and them.

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